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In Sonnet CXVI Shakespeare doesn't prove that Love is not Time's fool.

Shakespeare suggests:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

But the poem ends:

If this be error, and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

That is: Shakespeare doesn't need to prove his point - since anyone who has ever been in love already knows that this idea is untrue. (And in fact, if you can believe such nonsense, you might as well also believe that Shakespeare never wrote the poem you have just read).

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